Great effects and setting, but oh so shallow

Rating: 4/10 (1 August 2013)

Well, I'm a nerd, I love mechs and was thrilled at the prospect to watch this movie.
Don't get me wrong, it is a spectacle.
But still, the more the story progresses, the more holes you see in it. The weaponry makes no sense. I will not criticize, that maybe some small high yield mobile weapons would probably have been ten times more efficient against those foes humankind faces in that movie. As I said, I love mechs ;)
But the weapons the bots utilize? Please! One time it takes like 20 secs to charge a plasma gun, later in the movie it takes more like three, and in one scene, they don't need to charge it at all, blasting an alien corpse with abandon... Activating a e.g. ballistic weapon(in a fighting/killing machine) takes seconds and a voice command where everything else works through neural links, instead? Then, after "fistfighting" the aliens for one hour of felt movie brawl time(the weapons take so long sometimes, that they seem utterly useless at times - But well...), one of the pilots wants revenge for her family and "discovers", that the protagonist's mech has a chainsword, that just slices through the enemy like paper? Seriously?! How stupid is that?
Then one of the good guy's scientists creates a neural link to a part of one of the Kaiju's brains, which leads to the discovery of the enemy's plans for earth. So far so good - But(!) the link goes both ways and the Kaiju learn of the scientist who linked to the brain, and one of the monsters even adapt through knowledge gained from the scientist. He then does it another time, sharing the link with another scientist. They learn something, but the fact that the link goes both ways(and those two know more or less everything important about the defense) is just discarded. No consequences. Well, and the ending is shallow, ending with stupid jests, stupid sacrifices, and the heroes saving the day of course(at least I have nothing against that, eh?).
As I said - It's a great GCI spectacle, but kindly turn you brain of while watching, or you might not enjoy watching that one.